Chair



Patented Nov. 30,l 1926.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. DE FREI-IN, F JOHNSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

Application filed .Tune 30, 1926. Serial No. 119,649.

This invention aims to provide a book rack for a chair, which will be unusually strong, and well adapted to withstand the severe use to which chairs are subjected,

in places of public assembly.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.V n

With the above and other objects in View which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, with o-ut departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows in rear elevation, a portion of a chair whereunto the device forming the subject matter of this application z5 has been applied;

Figure 2 is a section taken about on the line 2--2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a section taken about on the line 3-3 of Figure 2, parts being in eleva- IO tion.

In the drawings there is shown a chair, the rear legs 1 of which are secured to the seat 2 and are extended upwardly above the seat 2 to form posts 3 of the chair back,

l5 the back of the chair being completed by slats et, extended upwardly from the seat, or in any other suitable way. The posts 3 may be sustained by braces 5 connected to the seat 2. The seat 2 has a rearward 'l0 extension 6 which forms the bottom of the book rack. The outer wall of the book rack is formed by a member 7, in the form of a board, having a slight curvature, as shown in Figure 2, the board 7 being overlapped on the rear end of the extension 6 of the seat 2 and being connected thereto by securing elements 8, such as screws. The ends of the board 7 are received in troughshaped reinforcements 9, made of wood and including outer ianges 10 and inner flanges 11. The ends of the board 7 are glued ordinarily in the trough-shaped reinforcements 9. The posts 3 of the chair back are supplied with seats 12 in which fit the forward ends of tubular spacers 111 which are generally made of wood. The rear ends of the spacers 14 abut against the flanges 11 of the reinforcements 9. Through the flanges 10 and 11 of the reinforcements 9, through the ends of the board or member 7, and through the spacers 111, extend securing elements 15, such as screws, the heads of the screws engaging the outer flanges of the reinforcements 9, and the screws 15 entering the posts 3. The tubular spacers 14 are bored before the screws are run through them, and, consequently, there is no danger that the spacers will be split by the screws. The flanges 10 and 11 of the reinforcements 9 are held on the ends of the board member 7 and the book rack, as a. whole, is so securely assembled with the chair that it will withstand any amount of knocking about, within the bounds of reason.

What is claimed is 1. A chair having a seat and a back, a member forming the outer wall of a book rack, trough-shaped reinforcements receiving the ends of the book rack member and including inner and outer flanges, tubular spacers abutting against the back and against the inner flanges of the reinforcements, and securing devices passing through the inner and outer flanges ofthe reinforcements, through the ends of the book rack member, through the tubular spacers, and into the back of the chair, a portion of the seat of the chair forming the bottom of the book rack.

2. A device of the class described, constructed as set forth in claim 1, and further characterized by the fact that the back of the chair has recesses in which the ends of the tubular spacers are received, the book rack member overlapping the rear edge of the seat, and means for securing said member to the seat.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature.

CHAS. H. DE FREHN. 

